looking for LANNIN mary Shearar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn MacLeod" <MacLeod.Family@xtra.co.nz> To: <south-africa@rootsweb.com>; <south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com>; "SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISH@rootsweb.com" <south-africa-immigrants-british@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 12:47 AM Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] RHODESIA 1885-1900 > Hi Donna > The book you are referrring to is > Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia by Frederick Courteney Selous >>>Selous was already a well-known writer, explorer, and hunter when he >>>published this work about his experiences before and during the 1896 >>>British campaign against the rebellions of the war-like Matabele tribe in >>>Rhodesia. The members of the Matabele tribe were chafing beneath the >>>British conquest of three years before, and initiated their rebellion >>>with >>>the murder of a number of white settlers. Bulawayo (the largest town in >>>the Western provinces) was threatened, and this put the rest of the >>>country south of the Zambesi into a state of rebellion as the fervor >>>rose. >>>Very fierce fighting between the British and the natives shortly >>>followed, >>>but Rhodes hastened to propose peace talks, and the army shortly went >>>unarmed into the heart of the Matappo hills to meet with native >>>representatives. The interview involved great personal risk for the >>>emissaries, and depended for its success entirely upon Rhodes' >>>personality >>>and influence over the native races, but luckily it was successful and >>>terminated what promised to be a long and disastrous native war. (When >>>the >>>rebellion broke out, the author and his wife were newly settled on an >>>estate in the Matabeleland. Selous served as an officer in the Bulawayo >>>Field Force, and presents here "some account of every skirmish, which had >>>taken place between the Colonists and the natives in Matabeleland up to >>>the date of the above-mentioned Force. To this I add a short account of >>>my >>>personal experiences in the country during the months immediately >>>preceding the outbreak of the insurrection." > > I have the book "With the Mounted Infantry & the M.F.F. 1896 - E A H > Alderson which has a listing of those killed/wounded/murdered or missing > in > action - are you after > any specific name?? > Take care > Lynn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Donna Macfarlane" <DonnaM@em.co.za> > To: <south-africa-eastern-cape@rootsweb.com>; > "SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISH@rootsweb.com" > <south-africa-immigrants-british@rootsweb.com>; > <south-africa@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:50 PM > Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] RHODESIA 1885-1900 > > >> Can anyone tell me what uprisings or battles were fought in Rhodesia >> between 1885-1900? >> >> And the uprising in the book of "Sunshine and Storm...." > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >